Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Will You Consider Coffee a Healthy Drink

In America there are more than 150 million Americans who are 18 and older who drink coffee on a daily basis. 65 percent of coffee drinkers are consuming their hot beverage in the morning. Coffee is a popular beverage and contents anti-oxidants. Antioxidants are widely used as ingredients in dietary supplements and have been investigated for the prevention of diseases such as cancer, coronary heart disease and even altitude sickness. Coffee has diuretic effects and it contents drug called caffeine.

Some Books and Encyclopedias tell us that Coffee is an important commodity. Over 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world every day. As recorded there are 25 million small producers rely on coffee for a living. For instance, in Brazil alone, where almost a third of the entire world's coffee is produced, over 5 million people are employed in the cultivation and harvesting of over 3 billion coffee plants.

If you’re addicted coffee drinker and you consumed at least 10 glasses everyday – your body absorbed also 1,350 mg of caffeine. Caffeine is classified chemically as a drug. Some scientific studies found that the total caffeine contents in a glass of coffee are approximately 135 mg.

Associated with those findings there are some good effects from drinking coffee such as: